It has been another embarrassing week for Rangers FC, despite their fine achievement in evicting Sporting from the Europa League on Thursday night. The events on the pitch at the Alvalade Stadium should have been worth celebrating alone, but, instead, once again, the bigoted songsheet of the Rangers fans proved a distraction in Lisbon.

A section of the club’s support — a sizeable section, alas — will not let go of its offensive chanting. I’ve said it before, the recent Papal visit to Scotland was just too much for certain Rangers fans — not, of course, that they are in any way versed